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The Holocaust
The Mission's Beginning
Waitstill Sharp describes how he and and his wife, Martha, were asked to begin relief work in Czechoslovakia aiding refugees from Nazi occupation.
![Martha and Waitstill Sharp wave to a crowd before leaving New York City for Europe. Martha wears a corsage of flowers on her coat and holds a bouquet of flowers in her left hand. Stamped in ink on verso: "Photo by William T. Hoff, New York Municipal Airport"](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Martha_and_Waitstill_Sharp_waving_for_Web_or_Office_Use.jpg?h=a9a611f7&itok=ld5w1FcD)
Helen’s Letter to Supporters
Read Helen Lowrie's letter to the Sharps' supporters describing their efforts to aid refugees with the children's rescue project.
![Formal portrait of the Sharp Family](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-09/Formal_portrait_of_the_Sharp_family_for_Web_or_Office_Use.jpg?h=5fa81f83&itok=jCHdObjE)
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
The last emperors of Germany and Russia posing together in 1905.
![Photo of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II posing in uniform.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch3_Image07_Medium_res.jpg?h=7101d55d&itok=pRrU0J5d)
Kurt Dreyer's Son
Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”
![Kurt Dreyer’s son wears the boots his father, a German soldier, sent him from Poland during World War II. Meine stiefel means “my boots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_KurtDreyersSon_%20FH229465.jpg?h=3bfaf5cd&itok=JI_qP1C5)
La Guespy Children's Home
Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941.
![Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941. The people of Le Chambon and surrounding villages hid nearly 5,000 people fleeing Nazi occupation.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_LaGuespyChildrensHome_FH229476.jpg?h=fbf7a813&itok=5bwT7e6v)
The "In" Group
High school student Eve Shalen reflects back on a time in middle school when peer pressure and desire for belonging influenced her decision-making.
![Hands raised in the air by group of people](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_GroupBelonging_FH229369.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=O6H7UmzG)
Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, 1930
German-American Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Germany’s first full-length talkie.
![Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, was Germany’s first full-length talkie, a motion picture with sound as opposed to a silent film. The film follows the story of college professor who is undone by his attraction to Lola-Lola, a cabaret dancer played by German-American Marlene Dietrich. The film made Dietrich an international film star, and she continued her acting career in the United States.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch04_Image09_Medium_res.jpg?h=ac1fc4d9&itok=W2CNh6u-)
Mass Grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
A member of Einsatzgruppe D, a mobile killing unit, about to shoot a man kneeling by a mass grave in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, in 1942.
![Nazi soldier holds gun to a man's head who is kneeled next to a ditch full of bodies.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_MassGraveinVinnytsiaUkraine_FH229478.jpg?h=b5e7ecd0&itok=kaw8xWRY)
Nazi Eugenics Exhibition Poster
This poster from a eugenics exhibition in the 1930s reads, “Sterilization is Liberation, Not a Punishment.” Three handicapped children are also pictured with the caption, “Who would want to be responsible for this?”
![Poster depicting three handicapped children and German text along the top.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Ch05_Image05.jpg?h=5bbdf1b2&itok=gZKHu2ZF)
Nazi Propaganda Newspaper
An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935.
![An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935. The headline above the case says, ""The Jews Are Our Misfortune.""](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_NaziPropagandaNewspaper_FH229452.jpg?h=fb0bd1b2&itok=WOgfci3M)